Parent post is completely wrong. The complete title is actually "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities".
Parent post is not completely wrong - I got the first part of the title right.:-) And I blame Dover
What's the big deal about FrameMaker? It's clunky and expensive. I had a client half a dozen years ago who had me write a program that converted some simulation data into FrameMaker format. Then they got tired of FrameBreaker(sic) and in no time my program output HTML. They saved a bundle in license fees.
Once upon a time a U. S. Army base was trying to get some customer support from a software company. The software company said "You'll have to wait - we have other customers, you know." The guy from the Army said, "Yes, but we're your only customer with tactical nuclear weapons."
I often think that if you could get one car executive to take a 'chance'...and try the old idea behind the original GTO's and later other muscle cars...
Did you ecer own a GTO? One of my best friends in High school did in the '70s. He (and others) told me that GTO meant "Get Tools Out". Manys the time I'd go to his house after school and he'd be working on something on that car.
Downloaded the Parrot source code. No README or INSTALL in the top-level directory, but there is Configure.pl, with comments that seem to indicate that you run this first. OK, run it but it barfs on line 405:
use Parrot::BuildUtil;
there's no file with 'BuildUtil*' name in the source distro.
You have to understand that in the old days, these sorts of things weren't considered "bad coding practices", they were considered "Super Elite Hacker Tricks".
No, I was there in the old days and I don't have to understand. Apple told developers not to do this and MS didn't listen. There is a difference between "Super Elite Hacker Tricks" and "bad coding practices" - if the hardware vendor says "don't do it because it will fail to run on future hardware" (and I know Apple said this) it is "bad coding practices". Although I shouldn't respond to an Anonymous Coward.
My guess is that many applications use self-modifying code as part of their anti-piracy/anti-reverse-engineering protection.
In the early '90s Motorola released the 68040 with a code cache that made programs that used self-modifying code crash and burn.
Apple had been telling people for years not to write self-modifying code because
this was going to happen. When Apple started building prototype Macs with 68040s and started testing for compatibility who do you suppose was one of the biggest offenders? Microsoft. I am not making this up.
Yes, look at open source bugzillas, they have them as well. That category is for bug reports which aren't really bugs in the eyes of the maintainer.
Well, these were bugs in the eye of the maintainer. I heard the manager of (one of the applications that is now part of MS Office) say "We'll fix it if enough customers complain about (a specific 'will not fix' bug)".
What evidence do you have that this bug was not found until the code was leaked?
I worked at MS once (hated it, quit) and the bug tracking system had a category of "won't fix" bugs - bugs they knew about but had no intention of fixing.
Yes, Python and a host of other languages can be downloaded for no cost, BUT none of them are provided ready-installed along with the OS on 99.8% of all new desktop/laptop computers today
Python is ready-installed on Mac OS 10.3, which has at least 2% market share of new computers, which is larger than the 0.2% you claim.
It might be kind of nice if the big boys tried to charge for email because then people would have an incentive to find a solution. In other words kill email as we know it.
If there was going to be a charge for email, consider how one group of email users, namely universities, would react. First, they'd find a workaround/new protocol so internal "messages" wouldn't be charged for. Next, universities would find a way to exchange "messages" between each other without charges. Then others would pick up on the idea and...
There are technical solutions, but they won't be adopted until a certain pain threshold is reached. Spam filters have improved a lot lately and have been holding the pain down. Charging for email would ratchet the pain level up immensely.
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Download file is WinDOS only. No thanks.
You can't trust open source either.
The expression used to be Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM.
Parent post is not completely wrong - I got the first part of the title right. :-) And I blame Dover
To be pedantic, the title of Boole's book was "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought"
What's the big deal about FrameMaker? It's clunky and expensive. I had a client half a dozen years ago who had me write a program that converted some simulation data into FrameMaker format. Then they got tired of FrameBreaker(sic) and in no time my program output HTML. They saved a bundle in license fees.
For the same price, I could put together an AthlonXP 2500+ with 512 megs of memory, a real hard drive, and a cd-burner.
Are you including the price of batteries for the AthlonXP setup? I wonder how big a NiCad pack you'd need to get 4 hours of life.
My idea of a classic game is chess, played with physical pieces on a physical board.
Once upon a time a U. S. Army base was trying to get some customer support from a software company. The software company said "You'll have to wait - we have other customers, you know." The guy from the Army said, "Yes, but we're your only customer with tactical nuclear weapons."
Add to that our manager likes to get his hands dirty and he calls you all the time off hours asking how to do stuff.
Solution:
Sorry dude - the cellphone's battery was dead.
I'm glad it doesn't attack UNIX boxes. But these things always screw up my email provider because of the volume of email they generate. Sigh.
Did you ecer own a GTO? One of my best friends in High school did in the '70s. He (and others) told me that GTO meant "Get Tools Out". Manys the time I'd go to his house after school and he'd be working on something on that car.
use Parrot::BuildUtil;
there's no file with 'BuildUtil*' name in the source distro.
Conclusion: not ready for prime time.
I did. google said:
Did you mean: "Directional Antenna Arrays"
No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.
Your search - "Directional Antenna Array's" - did not match any documents.
Actually:
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Sorry, wrong, it is a general purpose chipset. See:
http://www.amd.com/de-de/FlashMemory/FlashApplicat ions/0,,37_1736_6577_8011,00.html
Which states:
The PP5002 SuperIntegration(TM) System-On-Chip features dual ARM7TDMI (R) microprocessors.
No, I was there in the old days and I don't have to understand. Apple told developers not to do this and MS didn't listen. There is a difference between "Super Elite Hacker Tricks" and "bad coding practices" - if the hardware vendor says "don't do it because it will fail to run on future hardware" (and I know Apple said this) it is "bad coding practices". Although I shouldn't respond to an Anonymous Coward.
In the early '90s Motorola released the 68040 with a code cache that made programs that used self-modifying code crash and burn. Apple had been telling people for years not to write self-modifying code because this was going to happen. When Apple started building prototype Macs with 68040s and started testing for compatibility who do you suppose was one of the biggest offenders? Microsoft. I am not making this up.
Well, these were bugs in the eye of the maintainer. I heard the manager of (one of the applications that is now part of MS Office) say "We'll fix it if enough customers complain about (a specific 'will not fix' bug)".
I worked at MS once (hated it, quit) and the bug tracking system had a category of "won't fix" bugs - bugs they knew about but had no intention of fixing.
Python is ready-installed on Mac OS 10.3, which has at least 2% market share of new computers, which is larger than the 0.2% you claim.
Some points:
The name is ECMAScript - one word, not two.
The only thing nonstandard is Microsoft's bastardized implementation of what it calls JScript. JScript is not ECMAScript/JavaScript.
ECMAScript/JavaScript was not was not "created by a standards board" as you claim. It was created by Brendan Eich when he was at Netscape.
It is not a piece of junk. It is a very interesing prototype based with major influences from Self.
Clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
New concept? Sorry children, but back in the day (mid 70s for me) we all started out with assembly language. It isn't new - it's mostly a lost art.
If there was going to be a charge for email, consider how one group of email users, namely universities, would react. First, they'd find a workaround/new protocol so internal "messages" wouldn't be charged for. Next, universities would find a way to exchange "messages" between each other without charges. Then others would pick up on the idea and ...
There are technical solutions, but they won't be adopted until a certain pain threshold is reached. Spam filters have improved a lot lately and have been holding the pain down. Charging for email would ratchet the pain level up immensely.
Not likely. Most Lawyers I meet can barely use email. None of them is as computer savvy as a script kiddie.